Frances Wilson

Watercolour sketch of Jane Carlyle by Karl Hartmann (1850)

Back with a vengeance

11 March 2017 9:00 am

One hour in No. 5 Cheyne Row, Virginia Woolf observed, will tell you more about the Carlyles than all the…

Watercolour sketch of Jane Carlyle by Karl Hartmann (1850)

Back with a vengeance

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

One hour in No. 5 Cheyne Row, Virginia Woolf observed, will tell you more about the Carlyles than all the…

Rifling through a writer’s desk

3 December 2016 9:00 am

Frantumaglia isn’t strictly a book by Elena Ferrante. Frantumaglia isn’t strictly a book at all. It’s a celebration of the…

Champagne all the way

10 September 2016 9:00 am

A more appropriate subtitle to this homage to the queen bees of the interwar years might have been ‘How to…